Monthly Archives: December 2009

$$: Quick Grocery Run

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 31, 2009
Well, Happy (almost) New Year’s every­one!  I’m not stay­ing up until mid­night and I don’t feel like pro­gram­ming in a post to pub­lish itself at mid­night (because, well, on a blog such as mine that would sim­ply be silly) so I’ll wish you all a happy “almost” new year today and another happy new year [...]
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$$: No-Spend

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 30, 2009
Ah, another glo­ri­ous no-spend day. I did go out, how­ever.  I had some bank­ing I needed to do. Back in the good ol’ days, before the reces­sion hit, before the bub­ble burst, and before Bernie ripped off all those peo­ple, the kids and I all had var­i­ous accounts with Wash­ing­ton Mutual Bank (aka WaMu). WaMu was the first bank I [...]
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$$: Errands

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 29, 2009
Another day in sub­ur­bia; another day of dri­ving around on errands. I started with a 3-hour Project Ses­sion at the Apple Store.  Look­ing back over my pur­chases these past few years, the $99 I paid for an annual One-To-One mem­ber­ship is by far and away some of the smartest money I’ve spent.  This is my third [...]
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$$: Plastic Ziplock Alternatives

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2009
One of the best things about two weeks’ worth of school vaca­tion is two weeks’ break from pack­ing lunches. [So shoot me.  If I were a really good mom, I’d say the best part of vaca­tion is being with my kids, right?] Last year I exper­i­mented with using waxed paper sand­wich bags instead of plas­tic ziplock sand­wich bags [...]
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Diaper Service & Dairy Products

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2009
Local Dia­per Ser­vice — $386.65 Last week one of my kids’ favorite teach­ers became a father for the first time.  He’s a won­der­ful young man and his wife is equally lovely.  And they’re dirt poor.  I remem­ber those days — with just a touch of nos­tal­gic fondness. Last week I sent out an email to my fel­low [...]
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